You can get the Alpha 40 through horizon and they sell a combo. The planes I recommend to my students are, Hobbico hobbistar 60 (first and favorite), Alpha 40, for glow. I tell them to stay away from any kind of nextstar because they are not that durable when it comes to student treatment. Their landing gear is not flexible like the wire gear used on my other two recommendations. If you hit something with the wire gear you bend it back. On the nexstar, you have major repairs to do. Having said that, I currently have one student training on a nexstar he got at a swapmeet for $150. The tower trainer is ok once you get them straightened out. We had 3 out of 3 new out of the box with warped wings. All of them to the point they were not usable for training. But in Towers defense, they made it right on all three and we used them. It was just lost time. For electric I recommend the Apprentice 15e and Alpha 450. I've trained a LOT of people on the apprentice. The only down side is wind. The max on both those electrics is about 10 mph. The planes can handle it, the students cant and it turns into too much work just to maintain control. I have shown them that its their skills, not the plane. My glow students can fly up to 18 mph winds, a bit heavier and can penetrate better. But they also dont like training in high winds for the same reason as the electric guys. Any of the planes with restrictors on the engines or built in leading edge flaps, or spoilers, gets all that stuff removed so that we have a straight up plane with none of that nonsense.
Edwin